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OSCE Mission, Serbian Ombudsman promote rights of institutionalized persons with mental health disabilities

Publishing date: 19 October 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Human rights
BELGRADE, 19 October 2012 – The protection of the rights of institutionalized persons with mental health disabilities was discussed at an OSCE conference that ended today in Belgrade...

More protections needed for domestic workers' rights, OSCE Special Representative says in Cork

Publishing date: 19 October 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings
The OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, said that much of the domestic work sector remains hidden in the shadows of the global economy and more must be done to protect the rights of its overwhelmingly female labour force...

OSCE to develop guide on protecting critical energy infrastructure from terrorists

Publishing date: 18 October 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism
The OSCE Transnational Threats Department organized a stakeholder consultation meeting to discuss an OSCE project on protecting non-nuclear critical energy infrastructure from terrorist attacks on 11 October 2012 in Vienna...

OSCE and Central Election Commission of Ukraine launch online training system for election officials

Publishing date: 18 October 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Elections
KYIV, 18 October 2012 – A web portal to help train election officials created with support from the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (PCU) and the country’s Central Election Commission was launched today...

OSCE media freedom representative condemns attack on Serbian newspaper director

Publishing date: 18 October 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 18 October 2012 – Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, today strongly condemned the attack on Damir Dragić, director of the daily newspaper Informer...

OSCE Centre in Astana supports implementation of domestic violence legislation

Publishing date: 18 October 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Gender equality
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 18 October 2012 – The OSCE Centre in Astana supported a roundtable meeting and a workshop on the implementation of the current domestic violence prevention legislation which concluded today...

Head of OSCE Presence commends peaceful demonstration

Publishing date: 18 October 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Presence in Albania
What we do: Human rights
TIRANA, 18 October 2012- The Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania, Ambassador Eugen Wollfarth, commended the peaceful nature of today’s demonstration by a group of formerly politically persecuted persons in front of the Albanian Assembly...